IMPLANT ATTACHMENTS

Implants are abutments–the same as both vital and non-vital teeth and roots are abutments. The major differences between implant abutments and vital and non-vital teeth and roots are:

Lack of parallelism

Positioning

Mechanical adaptation requirements

The following options for implant prosthetics are identical to natural abutments:

Fixed Bridges. Often requires segmentation and attachments for parallelism.

Fixed Detachable Bridges. “All on 4″ or “Hybrid” dentures.

Combination of Fixed and Removable. Often fixed bridgework may be implemented in the anterior region, and a removable partial denture in the posterior. To avoid the negative esthetics and force distribution of clasp retention, precision attachments should be selected.

Removable Prosthesis

The most popular selection is a Removable Prosthesis, due to ease of implant inspection, servicing, hygiene, and maintenance. Three approaches are available:

a. Bars–provide outstanding stability, but take more space and require better patient hygiene.

The Extended Range nylon males provides for self-aligning of the attachment and aids the patient in positioning their prosthesis in similar manner as a guide plane created by a milled bar. The implant retained overdenture can be properly seated without damage to the attachment components.

This is especially important for a patient lacking the ability to propery orient their denture.

Clinical use has proven the ability of patient problems with inserting their implant retained overdenture to be solved in as little as one appointment.

The nylon male stays in contact with the abutment at all times, but the metal housings pivots and rotates around the nylon male to provide prosthesis resilience and abutment protection.

A revolutionary FIXED attachment that eliminates the problems of cement, screw access holes, and difficult procedures. Simple, user friendly techniques to save hours of chair time during processing and servicing.

Not indicated for resilient/tissue supported prostheses. Minimum of 4 implants.

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The LODI is designed to provide a specialty overdenture implant /attachment option where narrow ridges, minimized surgical invasiveness and financial considerations play a role in the implant choice and where a superior overdenture attachment can be utilized with no compromise.

The new LOCATOR Bar Attachment System contains the same self-aligning feature, superb retention, long lasting durability, and low attachment profile that you currently enjoy with our top selling LOCATOR Attachments.

Now these benefits are available for your immediate use when the splinting of implants is required with a bar for added stability.

The Dolder Female Rider is p roduced in either a Palladium or Gold alloy. Palladium is stronger, less expensive, and has a higher fusing temperature than gold alloys.

The bar and sleeve attachment are used for retaining removable partial dentures and overdentures.

The pear or oval shape is used for a resilient prosthesis providing vertical or rotational movements. The ‘U’ shape is for a rigid, or non- resilient, prosthesis. The dimensions on both bars are 2.2mm height, and 50mm length.

The Revax retained Hybrid prosthesis is a bar supported removable prosthesis. It may be tissue supported (resilient) or abutment supported (rigid).

When a limited number of implants are present in either the mandible or maxilla, the tissue supported overdenture is the preferred prosthetic option. When an adequate number of well integrated implants are present in an arch, a traditional fixed bridge is the prosthetic modality of choice. Often this is not an option in the maxilla, due to combined vertical and horizontal resorption, quality of bone, and position and/or flare of the implants. In this instance, a traditional fixed bridge would not meet patient requirements for hygiene maintenance, esthetics, phonetics, and comfort. The viable alternative is the rigid supported Revax bar removable prosthesis.

The concept is to separate support, lateral stabilization, and retention.

Each of these aspects can be altered according to the individual situation without influencing the other aspects of esthetics, phonetics, stabilization, oral hygiene, and patient comfort. Support is derived from three elevated areas: on the midline, and on the extensions of a bar construction which primarily splints the implants. The distal support zones may be planned to be in the axis of rotation of the resilient hybrid prosthesis. Lateral stability is achieved by incorporating a cast frame into the removable prosthesis that closely fits the bar in a passive state. Retention is derived from two or four CEKA REVAX attachments with adjustable, serviceable retention without influencing support or stability.